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New song from Protoje featured on 'Overstand Entertainment' new Riddim called the 'Militancy

Ye Resist Not Evil
Whoever shall smite thee
Will have to face the almighty
So take away my coat and my cloak
jah a me riches so me never broke

Lord I pray, please never let me lose my way 
In anything i do or say
Keep Jah in My Heart, Father shall carry i cross


How do i say it in a manner that
don't seem hype if i say we bring the banner back
Red gold green not a fad, badge of honour that
defender of the faith fi a fact we den ya pon attack
today tomorrow man a warrior nuh follow that
try put a stop to that but a just a comma dat
matter fact a so the sentence goes
i never try get revenge from these senseless foes

Me likkle bredrin touch 16
sight up the king and a adjust him dreams
Ones can't overstand a wonder what this means
develop fear in them heart and them start set fi him
him tell me, jah never make him get defeat
so him move like a gaddy and prevail pon the street
you nuh see it
a 3 shot him get fi it and him still den ya stand up pin him feet


You turn you back on the well when u done drink the water
all the quarrelling it woulda must bring disaster
fight against you brother just offending the master
them i couldn't join it woulda must kill me faster
oooh, i seen the strategy before fi drain i energy hypocrisy for sure
father please take my nemesis away from Jah premises


Protoje - Resist Not Evil (Militancy Riddim) Overstand Entertainment

HILLS

Incient Stepping

Family

Family (feat. Jesse Royal)

Who Knows' is the first official single from Protoje's forthcoming album,  which is due March 10, 2015.  

Purchase the album here: 
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It features Chronixx and is produced by Winta James.
Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective.

Lyrics:

Who knows Who knows Who knows
I just go where the trade wind blows
Sending Love to my Friends and Foes
And I suppose
I'm pleased to be chilling in the West Indies
Jah Provide All My wants and needs
I got the sunshine rivers and trees, Green Leaves.


When me see Jah me see a way
Drastically stray from Hypocrisy i say
Everyman to them owna philosophy
A Live the proper way, and them me read a chapter daily
Man deh Inner City hungry and no eat
And food deh down a country just a drop off a the tree them
You see say poverty no real then
Is what the reasoning revealing

When the rain pitter pat pon the roof
Herb just a steam pepper pon pon the stew
Life is a dream if you got gratitude 
So go tell the regime them can't stop weh we do now
Information you think on your own
Or else you're a slave to the things that you know
What do you know if you learn everyday?
So be careful of things way u say


Africa in a we soul
But a Jah in a we heart
It if of important say I&I gather
If we cannot show now a balance at we yard
How do We propose then to carry it abroad
Cannot Go to Ethiopia and you nuh have a plan
The building of a nation a hand a help a hand
Everyone one love a one
A man is just a man 
It shall be a coronation when we land

Who Knows (feat. Chronixx)

ITUNES

Who Knows ft. Chronixx

In Search Of Zion

Weed & Tings

"Stylin'" is the second single from Protoje's third studio album, Ancient Future, scheduled for release March 10, 2015.

Purchase the album here: 
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www.bit.ly/ancientfutureeur (EUR)
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Watch the official lyric video on Youtube.

Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective
http://www.protoje.com

Protoje (@protoje)
Song produced by: Winta James (@overstand_JA)
Shot by Nickii Kane
Directed and Edited by Yannick Reid
Art Direction and Animation by Taj Francis

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Stylin'

Legend Legend Legend

Legend Legend Legend (Zion I Kings Remix)

Mariposa

Where We Come From

The Jamaican Situation

Barrel Bun

80's Wild

BIG 45

Track 1 from Protoje's #1 reggae album, Ancient Future, released worldwide on March 10th!

Purchase the album here: 
www.bit.ly/ancientfuture (US)
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Produced by: Winta James
Artwork by: Taj Francis - https://instagram.com/tajfrancis/

(Mortimer)
A word unto the wise is enough
You can look but don't touch
My relations and such
Cause out here in this jungle we roam
Every King has his throne
And if you enter my zone
I vow Protect my Own, Protect my own
I will protect my own, protect my own

Bread basket from birth to the casket
Ive heard they been talking some words I look past it
I was brought up and taught of the tactics 
And learned that the Lion nuh turn when dog barking
Watch who you burn who you spark with
And you haffi go earn if u want it
So we nuh concern with who hawking
When them spit can't reach where we walking
Enemies in disguise wanna  see my demise 
Them nuh even realise jah nuh wrong dem
Cause i see that in life you achieve supmn’, nice
but achieve sumpn’ twice is a problem
Then, you can imagine what i face
Two up in the hand and another on the way
Plus i have another in the brain 
And every other one a put the other one to shame

Sharp like the thorn crown pon christ head
But you know the flow hardough like slice bread
Lyrics melt the butter fi make a nice spread
But a nuh margarine i pull the margin in
Then stretch the margin out and if you marching out
And you inna doubt then march without me 
I rather march alone than fi march back home
Tell me Queen say me lost the throne, No
This was built on the power of the truth 
Discovering the cowards and empowering the youth
If you give dem a minute dem devouring the fruit
And within an hour call it sour and chop the root
You nuh see it? No skill like Bibbi pon me feet
But drop me pon the riddim watch the clarity weh speak
Ain’t no parity between what we have and what we need
So strength out to the wise and protection for the weak.

Ancient Future

Protection ft. Mortimer

Protoje - Rub A Dub Soldier ft. Ky-Mani Marley & Da Professor

Empress look what I brought for you
Marijuana a glisten in the morning dew

She put her lips to my blunt and kiss it
No excuse when she roll she spliff
For she don’t even care if it smudge no lipstick
Naa refuse that a how she rep
She make sure I have some greens with it when I sip it
Then she roll off and roll up ma ting
And make me know that anyhow I put it in ma lyrics then
Only some girls goin’ comprehend

No she nuh agree wid dem policy so she bun her trees
No apologies never needed
Pon her property no it never cease so she get her peace
And her release when she weeded
Like it when it cure but she have a pree, prefer when it green
Have more THC when she steaming
When me go country and me come back in
She nuh ask a ting ‘cause she know wah me bring

Ohh she love my herb etiquette
How I roll it up so delicate
How I naa take a draw before she get a hit
How me drive in from far and me alone pon the road jussa move with
My light and my music with
The thought of you just waiting make me reach home safely
Navigate me baby, I know it’s on you brain
When you hear these statements and this message placement
No need to explain what I saying

So now she say she grown up
And she growing her own from the ground up
From the seed to the stalk ‘til the pound drop
And now a me make demands when I show up
Then I set sail as I inhale
The surplus is not for sale
Its purpose it much more real
So courteous with how she deal it
But it increase her feeling when a me build it

She wet it and seal it

Protoje - No Lipstick

Protoje - Take Control (The Message Riddim)

"Who Knows" was the first official single from Protoje's #1 Reggae album,  Ancient Future. Drum & Bass legend Shy FX gives the track his signature touch for a new interpretation of the hit record.

Purchase the song here:  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/who-knows-shy-fx-remix-single/id1083465151

Purchase the album here: https://Protoje.lnk.to/AncientFuture
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"Who Knows" features Chronixx and is produced by Winta James.

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Chronixx (@chronixxmusic)
Original song produced by: Winta James (@overstand_JA)
Remix produced by: Shy FX (@shyfx)

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Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective.
Mr. Bongo

Protoje - Who Knows ft. Chronixx (Shy FX Remix)

Available now! 
iTunes US: https://itunes.apple.com/album/blood-money-single/id1195542569
iTunes UK: https://itunes.apple.com/uk/album/id1195542569??app=itunes
https://protoje.lnk.to/blood-money

Produced by Winta James @overstandentertainment
In.Digg.Nation Collective/Overstand Entertainment 
Licensed by Mr Bongo Worldwide

Blood Money is the latest release from Jamaican Reggae singer Protoje. The song lyrics provide hard-hitting, raw and unapologetic commentary on the current state of Jamaica, touching on recent grievances and social injustices that have afflicted Jamaican society. Protoje describes the air of discrimination, classism, and oppression prevalent in the Jamaican political landscape, calling out corrupt practices, and conveys the meaningful message to his audience of awareness, activism and the need to call for change and accountability.

LYRICS:
Me nah watch no face, beg no more pardon
A nuff drugs money deh a Cherry Garden
Nuff individual society applauding
You can ask anybody where them get them start in
But nuff politician take the donation
So nuff criminal will never see a station
Never see a cell, not even a courthouse
But a every Sunday we see them take the boat out
North coast resort and car dealership
The construction company dem just don't legit
Use it wash the money, turn it 'round and hide it
When the kickback dem come in, the government delighted
So...

[CHORUS]
Police cancel operation,
'Cause nuh real bad man nah go station,
Now if you check the situation, 
A blood money run the nation,
Come take a look inna Jamaica,
Injustice in the place now,
If what you see no really phase you,
Then you a the problem that we face too.

Was 'bout to buy an X6 you know
Maybe then I'd never have to be prisoner 
Maybe then I coulda not turn in my firearm 
Police couldn’t come remand 
Come in like me run an army 
Was 'bout to be a politician too 
Maybe then I coulda make any decision, look
Maybe then I'd make a hundred million disappear
Then me act like me nuh care 
Watch you vote me back in there 
Because the sad reality
Inna Jamaica, say your status is your salary 
Man deh road a carry one whole heap a felony 
But them have a family a boost up the economy 
So...

CHORUS

Is 'out of many' but a one set of people feeling it
How that real, society you agree to this
Things a reveal, the garbage the machine spit 
No smoke screen at Riverton nuh conceal it
Now the system failing, the gap a get wider
A matter of time before a total divide ya 
You cross the line, man draw quick fi remind you 
If you build it on crime then crime will have to find you 
And that's how it's been always, that no frustrate you like it do to me?
How much dead baby deh over jubilee?
How much youths did 10 when them run inna Tivoli 
Now them 16, heart fry, head fricassee 
So...

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Blood Money

Track 3 from Protoje's fourth studio album A MATTER OF TIME available now at Protoje.com.

Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective
Produced by Winta James (@overstandentertainment)

Purchase the album A MATTER OF TIME here: Protoje.com
Also available on LP / Vinyl

LYRIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/iPG7Wlluf_E

Mind Of A King

"No Guarantee" is the fourth official single from Protoje's (@Protoje) forthcoming fourth full-length album "A Matter Of Time" to be released June 29, 2018.

Chronixx (@Chronixxmusic) joins Protoje on the track, pairing Protoje’s potent lyricism with a catchy yet poignant hook. Together they explore the human condition as it relates to topics of love and hate, envy, jealousy and loyalty.

“No Guarantee” will be available May 18, 2018, as an instant track with the pre-order of the album A Matter Of Time at Protoje.com.

Produced by Winta James (@wintafreshness)
Overstand Entertainment/In.Digg.Nation Collective
Licensed by Mr Bongo/Easy Star Records(US)/Baco Records(FR)

LYRIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/00u5MpRgw1Y

No Guarantee Ft. Chronixx

Lyrics for:
'This is NOT a Marijuana Song' by Protoje, Produced by Niko Browne for LifeLine Music. 2012

And so it was said that the herb be provided for I&I 

They don't want you to know Marijuana
Ites up and be Free
Jah so Let it be

Herb smoke keep i sane, take my pain 
Stop migraine, so much i gain, so why blame?
I'm saying Jah might bring the right strain 
To my brain fi chop lightning like I-Wayne
Cause man deh ya pon the Lava Ground
And if u soft like a guava u can't come round
This part of Town, I tell unuh the thought alone
A could a Sparta it falter down
REVIVAL Hallelujah it start up now
Reprisal fi the luu Jah it watered down, Naa Pardon none

What deh in a  mi garden strong
This is NOT a Marijuana Song

This is not Marijuana music
Just a Message from the ones that use it
Don't abuse it cause a mind that's fertile
Brings forth something that's worthwhile 
Know your worth child
Cause no officer alive coulda look in a ma eyes 
And see what i prophesy 
My mind it forever occupies, thoughts of.........
Hold ma talk cause spies amongst us
If trouble did a trouble me, well that mi chalice woulda bubbly
drop in a one load then double it

What deh in a me garden strong
This is NOT a Marijuana Song

Listen up, the truth is to be told
Open your eyes there is beauty to behold
What is the new if u consider the old
Why gain the world and no consider your soul 
What is the cloud if u understand the lining
Who is the king if u consider the LIneage
You know its H.I.M so no continue deny him
Is it freestyle if i consider the Line 
Then configure the timing adjust to fit the rhyme scheme
With no trouble to my mind really?
Seal It

I say wah deh in a me garden strong
This is not a Marijuana Song

This Is Not A Marijuana Song

LYRICS:

And She didn’t know how to tell him
She was In love with a Rasta Man
Fire was burning and Burning
To let out what she was holding In

I know her story before she say it
Daddy just want her Co-operate
Find somebody that’s corporate 
Suit and Tie more appropriate
Him say him naa make him daughter stray
But reggae music she start fi play it
Ital food when she sort her plate
Militant yute wah she want fi date
And that is what she need
Marcus Garvey she start fi read
Hair stop comb and it start look neat
SO him want keep her off the street from who she with
And that be me
More than a natty head is what she see
NO lovers leap is not for me
And she nuh waa keep it a secret but she cant tell him who she sleep with


And she wants to be free 
From all this captivity 
So she’ll be who she will be
They cant tell her who she need
They cant tell her who she want  who she can’t
She talk her owner chant chart her owner path 
And follow her owner heart
Call me over her own apartment
Now as I answer the phone that’s the tone she start with
She know say she don’t fi part with 
One Like I even though so much impart it
So she haffi do her owner thing
Cause she can never live life for them
Knowing that she would look back when
To the time weh she couldn’t explain to him cause then

Rasta Love ft. Ky-mani Marley

A short story based on the events of May 23rd, 2010, when the Jamaican government deployed its military into Tivoli Gardens in the capital city of Kingston.
Premier Nov 5th.

Ey, ey
Watch ya dread
Hey hey

Kingston, be wise
Kingston, free up your mind
Kingston, just be wise
Kingston, free up the I, yeah

When the city a go click-clack-blow, you bet
Government fingers and tic-tac-toes in it
And while they working on the X's and O's
I'm living I-N-I like I'm Mister Kamoze
No surprise when they sending foes to me
Opposite of when plain clothes approaching me
Follow they rules is what they propose to me
Selling they souls for what is owed, you see
Nothing is owed, nothing is promised 
Never know the government woulda run up inna them garrison
Without no sorry, without excuse
Soldier man inna them lorry, everybody get abused, and
Everybody have them views now
The media is owned so know where you get your news from
And the blood deh pon them shoes now
When them walking it trace
Look them hard in them face
And say

Kingston, be wise
Kingston, free up your mind
Kingston, just be wise, for me
Kingston, free up the violence

Now all the damage can't quantify
Roy Rayon couldn't sanctify 
Say a nuff a dem them send fi die
So the city a intensify
Say the ghetto them a gentrify
Well I, nobody nuh identify
Nuff bodies unidentified and just a lie deh
Then where the gun deh? Dead pon Saturday 
Buried Sunday like Solomon Grundy
Like a no Sons of Solomon them have down deh
Leonard Howell, Pinnacle and them land deh
Subdivision, them deal it underhand deh
So learn it 'cause them come back with dem plan deh
So tell me how far do you wanna go now, hey
'Cause them will ratta-tatta-tatta when u pow-pow-pow


Kingston Be Wise

Track 11 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

You need a bullet proof vest
No need to run!

(Toi)
I’ve been shot by love
And now me can’t run away, run away
I’ve been shot in the heart
Them call it love in the first degree
I’ve been shot by love
And now me can’t get away, get away
I’ve been shot in the heart
Them call it love in the first degree

(Protoje)
Me say me full up a ammunition when me touch down
Love zone knock her down from inna the first round
The love ya realer than the Vatican own
She a the queen fi me African throne
No mercenary Taliban it control
Me a the one fi lock your body and soul
Jah set the plan, me just a watch it unfold
You overstand, that’s why me left it untold

[CHORUS]

(Protoje)
Me say me shot you with me loving but your life ain’t gonna end
No need for running, this is just the beginning
Aiming for the target, the tranquilizer tame you
And cupid him coulda never have dem aim ya
Now you really won't forget wha’ true love feel like
Me loving touch you heart and knock you down in a real life
Love in the first degree, you know say me do it right
And fill her up with the real type, sleep tight

[CHORUS]

(Toi)
Them say you can’t escape it, can’t mistake it
When love knocks you down
Now my heart is yours, unarmed and open
You took my barrier down
A shot without a sound
Me never see you coming
Like a stranger in the night
Me never see you coming

Shot by Love ft. Toi

Track 13 from Protoje's Sophomore album ' The 8 Year Affair' (2013)

Every morning I rise
Peace to my mind when I hail Ras Tafari
Knowing His eyes are on I
Jah be my guide, I reside with the Most High
Even inna drought I nuh cry
These are the times when I hail Ras Tafari
Knowing that Jah will provide for I

I said He giveth and He taketh away
Understanding nothing is belonging to me
Earth will provide you with the necessity
Me say simplicity is what we use in these days
And Ras Tafari prophesied there would be wars
Many possessions would be lost
What you live is what you leave with, so
Hold it close, it’s the only thing that's yours

[CHORUS]

Because we know Jah we cannot walk away
Heart of the Lion is telling us not to stay far
‘Cause when it all passes away
To abide in Your presence is the only thing I pray for
‘Cause it is beautiful to know
Storms all around and You safely guide the way home
Yes, You lightening my load
Keep me right here on the straight road

[CHORUS]


Haile love I, you never forget
Haile bless I, don’t you ever forget
Haile love I, don't you ever forget
Haile bless I, don’t you ever forget

[CHORUS]

Haile is the power and the knowledge and the key
One, two, three, the Holy Trinity, yeah


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